[wisb] Osprey - 2s company, 3s a crowd
- From: "pready tds.net" <pready@xxxxxxx>
- To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 19:21:55 -0500
Late this aft I checked on the Stoughton osprey nest. Two were sitting on
the nest and then I noticed 1 flying just north of them, up river.
About a minute later the male took off from the nest and landed over on the
other pole to the west. Almost right away the 3rd one drifted south right
toward the female sitting on the nest. As soon as he tried to land she
reared up went at him. He veered off and up but she got her leg caught on
the edge of the nest and fell over, I thought she was going to get tangled
in the ground wire that runs along the top of the poles. She had her wing on
or by the wire but went into a free fall like a kid's kite dropping from the
sky. She got below all the power lines and flapped her wings and took off
after the intruder. A bluff attack to get rid of him and she returned to the
nest. Right away the resident male flew over and copulated with her and then
took off to get a stick and returned to the nest. All was happy again in
Ospreyville.
Other than that I had my FOY Yellow-rumped warblers today. And a FOY
Brown-headed Cowbird at my feeder this morning. Big whup!
Patrick Ready
Stoughton
Dane Co.
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